Step 1: Submit Your Video File for Captioning

Log into your 3Play Media account. From the Upload tab at the top of the screen, select From Computer, choose your video, and follow the onscreen prompts to specify turnaround. You’ll receive an email when your captions are ready.

Step 2: Download Your Captions in SCC Format

Step 3: Open Your Project in Adobe Encore

Open Adobe Encore and navigate to the Project window. From the top nav bar, select File > Import As > Asset to open your movie file. Next, select Timeline > New Timeline from the top nav bar. Drag and drop your video from the Project window into the timeline. You will see that your file propagates to the Video and Audio 1 components of the timeline.

Step 4: Add Captions to Your Adobe Encore Project

Click on the video aspect and navigate to the Properties window. Under Closed Caption Field 1, click Browse and open the SCC caption file you downloaded in Step 2. Unfortunately, you cannot preview your video with captions.

Step 5: Add Subtitles to Your Adobe Encore Project

If you have subtitle files to add to your DVD, add them by clicking the checkbox to the left of the Subtitle 1 component to enable this field. Right click in the Subtitle 1 field and select Import Subtitles, followed by the appropriate subtitle file type. Adobe Encore accepts subtitle files in time-stamped .txt files; image files in .jpg, .gif, .png, .tif, or .bmp format; or FAB image scripts. If you are uploading a text script, select formatting options before clicking OK to add your subtitles.

Go to the Menus window to add a menu with subtitle options to your DVD. You can preview your video with subtitles by navigating to File > Preview.